Dripstone

Connected Sites

Site Rationale Link
Aggtelek and Slovak Karst
Altamira Cave In El Castillo (and probably others)
Australian Fossil Mammal Sites Naracoorte Caves has a great variety
Budapest Gellert Hill Cave
Carlsbad Caverns
Causses and Cévennes Aven Armand
Champagne The caves of the Montebello Castle feature soda straws, fine stalactite formed from a natural tube of calcite concretion (Nomination file, Annexe 2, Inventaire du patrimoine industriel du champagne, p. 47)
Cilento and Vallo di Diano Grotte di Castelcivita
Costiera Amalfitana Esmerald Cave
Desembarco del Granma National Park the pagan Idolo del Agua, carved 1,000 years ago from a stalagmite (UNEP-WCMC)
Evaporitic Karst and Caves "speleothems" (AB ev)
Fossil Hominid Sites Taung Skull Fossil Site (nom file)
Greater Blue Mountains Jenolan Caves
Gunung Mulu Lang Cave, Clear Water Cave and Wind Cave
Ha Long Bay – Cat Ba Archipelago Thien Cung grotto
Hallstatt-Dachstein Koppenbr?ller-Cave
Jeju All five Lava tube caves include stalactites (a type of dripstone). Yongcheon Cave "Originating from of overlying carbonate sand dunes, including stalactites, stalagmites, pillars, cave corals, cave pearls, curtains, flowstone, and rimstone pools." - AB Document
Mammoth Cave
Puerto-Princesa Subterranean River
Rock Islands
Skocjan Caves
Tasmanian Wilderness Mole Creek Karst National Park - King Solomons Cave & Marakoopa Cave
Viñales Valley In Caverna de Santo Tomás
Wulingyuan Yellow Dragon Cave

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